Dad wants no jail for son who beat him with baseball bat

WAMPSVILLE >> An Eaton man charged after attacking his father with a baseball bat in April 2013, is scheduled to be sentenced in August.

On Thursday, Vincent Stile, 21, who hit his 59-year-old father in the head multiple times with a baseball bat after an argument over doing the dishes, appeared in Madison County Court. He waived grand jury indictment and pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, a class D felony. He is scheduled to be sentenced in Madison County Court on August 18.

A sentencing deal struck with the Madison County District Attorney’s Office which was accepted with his Thursday guilty plea, includes an interim probation sentence for one year during which he must meet requirements yet to be set in order to be successful. He would return to county court after one year for review, and if he has cooperated with the program set forth by the Madison County Probation Department, he will receive a traditional probation sentence.

If he is unsuccessful, he could face prison time.

“Under the circumstances, this is an unusual disposition,” said Madison County District Attorney William Gabor.

Gabor said the Stile family did not want Vincent charged.

Anthony Stile, Vincent’s father who was struck with the baseball bat, was in court to explain his point of view.

Since the incident, ‘I have no limitations or disabilities,” said his father who said he has made a full recovery.

“I don’t want my son prosecuted. I want him to get the help he needs. I love him,” said Anthony Stile.

Gabor indicated that even though the family feels the way they do, justice still must be served because of larger societal issues.

Continuing, Anthony Stile said, “My son has always been good...this was one incident.”

After entering his guilty plea, Stile told the court that on April 16, he got in an argument with his father over washing dishes, when he hit him with a baseball bat “ten to fifteen times.”

According to police reports, on April 16, 2013 at 8:09 p.m., New York State Police in Morrisville responded to a medical call at 4454 state Route 26 Eaton, to investigate a report of a man who was struck in the head with a baseball bat. Police determined that Vincent Stile, who lives with his parents, had an argument with his father, Anthony V. Stile, then 59 years old. Police said that after the argument, Vincent went to his upstairs bedroom and, “became extremely upset.”

He then went back downstairs where his father was resting on the couch and sprayed his father’s face with pepper spray and then struck him approximately 15 times in the head and body with the aluminum bat.

Anthony Stile was taken to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, with multiple skull fractures, police said at the time of the attack.